Anthony Andrews

Known for ActingBorn 1948-01-12 (age 78)London, England, UK

Anthony Andrews made his West End theater debut at the Apollo Theatre as one of twenty young schoolboys in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On" with John Gielgud. He began his career at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the UK. His theater credits include spells with the New Shakespeare Company - "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The Royal National Theatre production of Stephen Poliakoff's "Coming in to Land" with Maggie Smith, directed by Peter Hall, the much-acclaimed Greenwich Theatre production of Robin Chapman's "One of Us" and, as "Pastor Manders", in Robin Phillips's highly acclaimed production of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Comedy Theatre in London, produced by Bill Kenwright. Anthony's first television appearance was in The Wednesday Play: A Beast with Two Backs (1968) by Dennis Potter, which was part of The Wednesday Play (1964) series. His first leading role in a series was as the title character in the BBC's The Fortunes of Nigel (1974) by Sir Walter Scott. Subsequently, he distinguished himself in various television classics playing "Mercutio" in Romeo & Juliet (1978) and starred in three different plays in the "Play of the Month" (1976) series, including playing "Charles Harcourt" in "London Assurance". He also starred in Danger UXB (1979), in which he played bomb disposal hero "Brian Ash". Most famously, he received worldwide recognition for his portrayal of the doomed "Sebastian Flyte" in Brideshead Revisited (1981) for which he won a BAFTA in the UK, the Golden Globe award in the USA and an Emmy nomination for Best Actor. Anthony's since gone on to star in Jewels (1992), for which he received another Golden Globe nomination. Most recently, Anthony has received tremendous acclaim for his outstanding portrayal of "Count Fosco" in "The Woman In White" at the Palace Theatre in London's West End. As a producer, he co-produced Lost in Siberia (1991), which translates as "Lost in Siberia", filmed entirely in Russia, which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film and Haunted (1995), produced by his own production company, Double 'A' Films.Read more

Movies & web series

The Woman He Loved

A Beast with Two Backs

The Law Lord

Bluegrass

Notes from Under the Volcano

Mothertime

Revisiting Brideshead

A War of Children

Tales from the Crypt

Agatha Christie's Marple

The King's Speech

Danger UXB

Columbo

Brideshead Revisited

The Duchess of Duke Street

The Syndicate

The English Game

Upstairs, Downstairs

QB VII

Romeo and Juliet

The Professor and the Madman

Mistress of Paradise

Nightmare Classics

The Country Wife

French Without Tears

Operation: Daybreak

The Grand Knockout Tournament

Hands of a Murderer

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Suspicion

Cambridge Spies

Under the Volcano

A Fine Romance

The Second Victory

David Copperfield

Ivanhoe

The Pallisers

Haunted

The Love Boat

Jewels

The Lighthorsemen

Sparkling Cyanide

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

David Copperfield

The Adolescents

The Holcroft Covenant

A.D.

A Day Out